What if college football had a relegation and promotion system, à la world soccer? If we'd installed our system before the 2012 season began, here's how things would've shaped up based on real-world standings. Your team's going to the Pioneer League!
Time to put relegation into action with seven years of simulations. Boston College to the Big East? UCLA and Washington to the Mountain West? Which SEC team will be stuck in the Sun Belt in 2012?
Here's every college football conference in the country arranged to preserve geography, rivalries and competition while making it possible for teams to rise and fall as they deserve.
Conference realignment has gone off the rails. A soccer-style relegation system make both success and failure mean more, but it would also fix much of what's wrong with the current arrangement.
College football's leagues are shaped by pact-making aristocrats, while world soccer is a series of meritocracies. It's time to make college football more American.
